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The 2020 Dividend Aristocrats List | See All 64 Now
Updated on March 3rd, 2020 by Bob Ciura Spreadsheet data updated daily The Dividend Aristocrats are a select group of 64 S&P 500 stocks with 25+ years of consecutive dividend increases. They are the ‘best of the best’ dividend growth stocks. The Dividend Aristocrats have a long history of outperforming the market. The requirements to…
Read MoreMonthly Dividend Stock In Focus: STAG Industrial
Updated on March 3rd, 2020 by Josh Arnold For investors seeking yield, the real estate industry is a great place to look. Intuitively, this is not surprising. Real estate owners collect predictable income from their tenants. Thus, the real estate business is qualitatively geared for business owners that want to collect periodic income. This characteristic…
Read MoreILS funds could see some Coronavirus contingency claims leakage: von Herberstein
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund market does hold some exposure to contingency related risks, including from event related exposures, which means there is a chance of some claims leaking to ILS funds from coronavirus triggered claims, Hudson Structured partner Edouard von Herberstein said today. Speaking at the SIFMA Insurance and Risk Linked Securities conference held…
Read MoreILS funds face challenge to accurately value PG&E settlement: KPMG
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) fund managers, as well as other managers of third-party capitalised reinsurance and retrocesion vehicles, face a particularly significant challenge when it comes to accurately valuing the PG&E wildfire related subrogation settlement in their funds, the actuarial team at KPMG highlighted. As we’ve covered previously, Californian electrical utility PG&E has agreed an $11…
Read MoreWhite Mountains adds $10m to Elementum ILS fund allocation for 2020
White Mountains Insurance Group made good on its promise to allocate up to $50 million of capital into ILS funds under the management of Elementum Advisors, LLC, the insurance and reinsurance linked asset manager in which it acquired a 30% stake in 2019. White Mountains acquired a stake in ILS fund manager Elementum Advisors in…
Read MoreSwiss Re selects new Chairman in UBS CEO Sergio P. Ermotti
Global reinsurance giant Swiss Re has selected a new Chairman of its Board in the outgoing CEO of bank UBS Sergio Ermotti, who will take over the position from Walter B. Kielholz next year. The news was first reported yesterday, that the CEO of the largest bank and money manager in Switzerland, UBS, is set…
Read MorePCS launches industry loss index & estimates for Latin America
Property Claim Services (PCS) will now provide industry loss data aggregation and index reporting for the entire Americas, from Canada to Argentina, with the launch of a Latin America service in response to client demand. PCS, a Verisk Analytics business, already provides loss aggregation and reporting solutions for property catastrophe risks across the United States,…
Read More“Real opportunity” for ILS market to help US government de-risk: Hensarling
Speaking at the SIFMA Insurance and Risk Linked Securities Conference in Miami yesterday, former U.S. Congressman Jeb Hensarling explained that the ILS market has a “real opportunity” to assist the United States government in shifting more risk away from taxpayers. Hensarling explained that the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market and private insurance or reinsurance markets in…
Read MoreArch Capital sponsors $76.5m Voussoir Re 2020-1 sidecar SPI issuance
Arch Capital Group, the Bermuda headquartered insurance and reinsurance specialist, has sponsored a new $76.5 million sidecar issuance through the special purpose insurer Voussoir Re Ltd., we understand. Almost a year ago we reported on a first $74 million issuance of notes by Voussoir Re Ltd., a collateralised reinsurance sidecar style vehicle which we understood…
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